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Most Of The Clitoris Lives Inside, Mate

You only see the bonnet; the rest is a lumpy, lovemaking apparatus that sprawls like a secret map under the skin.Read More

When Your Hand Goes Rogue

Proper daft: one of your hands can start doing stuff on its own, like some tiny squaddie with a vendetta.Read More

Mercury's Tiny Angry Pits

Mercury's surface has little bright pits called 'hollows' - like the planet's been on the piss and forgotten to finish a DIY job.Read More

Iapetus: The Moon That Grew A Ridge

Saturn's walnut-shaped moon has a spine down its middle like someone tried to stitch a belt on a doughnut and forgot why.Read More

They Tried To Smash Cities With Bats, Properly Daft

In WWII the US actually trained bats to carry tiny incendiaries so they'd roost in wooden houses and start fires - and it worked well enough to be terrifying.Read More

The Dead Bloke, a Rubaiyat and a Code No One Can Crack

Found on a beach in 1948: a dead fella, a torn bit of poetry and a string of letters like someone tried to hide a crossword answer.Read More

Point Nemo: Middle Of Nowhere Where Astronauts Are Your Neighbours

There is a spot in the South Pacific so lonely the closest people are the ones circling overhead, and even ships treat it like a skip for dead satellites.Read More

133 Days Adrift, Ate Seagulls, Still Sound

Proper mad: a fella floated for 133 days, drank rain, ate birds and turned a bit of canvas into a wardrobe and kept his humour.Read More

Some Git Named An Asteroid After His Cat Mr Spock

Proper daft: there really is an asteroid called 2309 Mr Spock, and no, it wasn't christened for Captain Kirk - it was named after a moggy.Read More

In China You Need Permission To Be Reborn

They actually make Tibetan monasteries get state sign-off before announcing a 'return' - paperwork for your next life.Read More
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